ASKQANCE 2012 Results – College Quizzes

ASKQANCE 2012 – KQA’s 29th Anniversary quiz festival for schools and colleges was held on the 21st of July 2012 at St. John’s Auditorium. Here are the results for the college quizzes.

Junior College Quiz

FIITJEE, Hyderabad – 150 points
Krishna Akhil, Rohan Naidu & Harine Ravichandran
Frank Anthony Public School – 145 points
Ritvik C, Venkat N & Mollika M
National Public School, Indiranagar – 105 points
Abhinav VN, Deepak KS & Anindya Sharma
Sri Kumaran’s Children’s Home (CBSE) – 75 points
Akshay Tiwary, Tejas Joshi & Madhavan Venkatesh
National Public School, Koramangala – 65 points
Pratik Ramesh, Ganesh Krishna & Pranay Rai
National Public School, Rajajinagar – 60 points
Anirudh SR, Suraj Srikumar & Sasidhar GV
Sri Kumaran’s PU College – 55 points
Abhishek VS, Raghavendra RG & Pradyumna S Kale
National Public School, Koramangala

College Quiz
Since the junior college quiz and the college quiz had a common written preliminary round, two junior college teams from FIITJEE, Hyderabad and FAPS, Bangalore also qualified for the college quiz.

NITK, Surathkal – 65 points
Chaitanya K, Samarth R & Srinivas S
BITS, Pilani – 57 points
Srisha Haridas, Deepak Gopinath & Nachiketa Adhikari
NIT, Calicut – 56 points
Deepak Thomas, Leo Thomas & Prasanth John Abraham
NITK, Surathkal – 55 points
Preeti S, Soumya E & Aniruddha T
NLSIU – 50 points
Aurobindo, Badri & Pranav
Frank Anthony Public School – 40 points
Ritvik C, Venkat N & Mollika M
FIITJEE, Hyderabad – 10 points
Krishna Akhil, Rohan Naidu & Harine Ravichandran
IIIT, Bangalore – 0 points
Sandeep A Mathias

July 22, 2012 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Results | Leave a Comment

ASKQANCE 2012 Results – School Quizzes

ASKQANCE 2012 – KQA’s 29th Anniversary quiz festival for schools and colleges was held on the 21st of July 2012 at St. John’s Auditorium. Here are the results for the school quizzes.

Middle School Championships (V, VI, VII std)

PSBB Learning Leadership Academy – 90 points
Ayushman Satpaty & Samyukta Shrivatsa
National Public School, Indiranagar – 80 points
Arjun Nair & Arcot Pradhuymna
National Hill View Public School – 65 points
Siddarth Yagnamurtyh & N. Krishna
Frank Anthony Public School – 55 points
Nakul Diwekar & Abhiram Eswara
St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School – 55 points
Hayden D’Souza & Kaustubh Roy
PSBB Learning Leadership Academy – 50 points
Kunjal Parnami & Arjun Shekar
National Hill View Public School – 45 points
Anirudh Kulkarni & Vikas Vasu
National Academy for Learning – 40 points
Prakriti R & Akul D. Shetty

Cognito – High School Championships (VIII, IX & X std)

Sharada Vidyalalya – 165 points
Preetham & Bharath
St. Paul’s English School – 140 points
Amogh N Chakravarthy & Nikhil Chandra R
The Oxford Senior Secondary School – 116 points
Sanskar Biswal & Anshu Pal
St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School – 115 points
Pranav Ramamurthy & Ashwin Kumar
National Public School, Koramangala – 105 points
R. Adithya & Arko Kundu
The Oxford Senior Secondary School – 80 points
R. Jayanth & Rohan J
National Public School, Koramangala – 60 points
Gaurav Pai & Priyank Bhandia
PSBB Learning Leadership Academy – 40 points
Rahul G & Nitin V

July 22, 2012 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Results | Leave a Comment

ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 3 Results

With only two quizzes scheduled for the 3rd day of ASKQANCE, we began a little later in the day. This also meant some of us could get a precious extra hour or two of sleep before turning up for the quizzes.

SON OF LUMIERE – OPEN FILM QUIZ

QMs: Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange

With almost every question containing video or audio clips, this quiz was literally packed with entertainment. The question ranged over different eras of cinema and covered the gamut of cinema from Bollywood to Hollywood to foreign languages to Indian regional.

The team calling themselves Keep Distance topped the preliminary round with an astounding 30 out of a possible 36 points. They went on to come second in the final round, but were always close on the heels of the eventual winners, Metaquizziks.

Metaquizziks – 185 points.
Keep Distance – 165 points.
Travelling Pillsburies – 130 points.
Waltobama – 105 points.
Insignificant Others – 100 points.
Cunning Stunts – 85 points.
Inglorious Bastard Son of Lumiere – 80 points.
We May Die But It’s Worth It – 80 points.

AWARDS

The Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Trophy for Quizzing Excellence was presented to Ms. Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka from Kolkata for being the top scorer in Mahaquizzer 2012. Ms. Mohanka has been consistently among the top few scores for the past few years and her winning the trophy this year also makes her the first lady to win it in the short history of Mahaquizzer.

The KQA Founders’ Trophy was presented to QED (Jayakanthan, Samanth S, Gopal Kidao & Swaminathan G) from Chennai, the team that won the finals of Mega-Whats held on June 30.

SESAME, OPEN! QUIZ

QM: Arul Mani

The annual open quiz held at ASKQANCE sees participation from the best teams from across the country and so the prelims are not just high scoring but also hard fought for the 8 places in the finals. The final line up this year had teams from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore with a team from Goa just missing the qualification mark.

The finals proved to be both interesting in content and exciting in competition as teams frequently changed places in the scoring. Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan & Kiran Vijaykumar) from Bangalore overtook QED early in the quiz but then slumped for a while before finally finishing second. QED, the eventual winners lagged for a bit too but then pounced on a series of questions in the fourth round to create and unassailable lead. We Are Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma and Thejaswi Udupa) from Bangalore who were placed last for a couple of rounds bounced back spectacularly towards the end of the quiz to pip the Kolkata team Hammer and Tongs (Kinshuk Biswas, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, Shouvik Guha & Anil Vaswani) by 5 points for third place.

Click the graph below for an idea of how the teams’ scores progressed through the quiz.

QED – 275 points.
Metaquizziks – 225 points.
We Are Like This Wonly – 215 points.
Hammer and Tongs – 210 points.
Travelling Pillsburies – 205 points.
Champions of Breakfast – 135 points.
Mad O’Wot – 130 points.
Dilli Ke Thugs – 115 points.

July 2, 2012 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Open Quizzes, Results | Leave a Comment

ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 2 Results

June 30, Day 2 of ASKQANCE 2012 had a packed schedule with 2 open quizzes and the second semi-finals and the finals of Mega-Whats.

MEGA-WHATS SEMI-FINAL 2

QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijaykumar

In the second semi-finals, We Are Like This Wonly secured their spot in the finals winning by a comfortable margin but there was a close fight for the other 3 spots.

We Are Like This Wonly – 285 points.
Travelling Pilsburies – 255 points.
Dilli Ke Thugs – 215 points.
Mad O’Wot – 200 points.
Metaquizziks – 185 points.
Mega-WTFS – 130 points.
Cunning Stunts – 115 points.
Two and a Half Men – 30 points.

BY HOOKE OR BY CROOKES – THE SCIENCE QUIZ

QMs: Rajagopal P.S., Vivek Karthikeyan & Siddhartha Shanker

The quizmasters kept the participants on their toes, answering questions about elements, identifying equations and even filling in blanks in poetry! The scoring was so close that two teams tied for first place and decided to split the honours instead of breaking the tie.

Insert Cool Name Here – 104 points.
We Are Like This Wonly – 104 points.
Pouncing As Science (aka Metaquizziks) – 95 points.
Nexus – 77 points.
Questionable Characters – 64 points.
Travelling Pillsburies – 64 points.
Cunning Stunts – 47 points.
Swami’s Friends – 42 points.

KIBITZ SIMPLE – THE SPORTS QUIZ

QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh Srinivasan

Metaquizziks going under the alias of Metal-Quizziks in a surprise result qualified for the finals of a sports quiz. They also bravely participated in the absence of Arul Mani who was busy setting questions for the Mega-Whats finals for later in the day.

Insignificant Others – 235 points.
Flibberti-Kibitz – 175 points.
Swami Obamananda – 165 points.
We Are Like This Wonly – 160 points.
CIDs from Mumbai/Kerala – 155 points.
Untitled – 130 points.
MAAZ FC – 125 points.
Metal-quizziks – 85 points.

MEGA-WHATS FACE OFF

QMs: Arul Mani & Kiran Vijaykumar

After a short break for tea and snacks, quizzers poured into the hall to witness the finals of Mega-Whats. With teams from Kolkata, Mumbai, Goa, Chennai, Bangalore & Delhi, it had a truly national flavour.

QED, a team from Chennai took an early large lead and kept it through the quiz to win by very large margin. This didn’t mean there was no excitement at all; The teams in 2nd, 3rd and 4th places though frequently exchanged places as the quiz progressed, and even before the last couple of questions, there was a chance for teams to surge ahead to get 2nd place.

An interesting round on connections where teams could also stake confidence on their answers to take higher points helped some teams get a nice leg up in the scoring.

QED – 390 points.
Insignificant Others – 265 points.
Dilli Ke Thugs – 250 points.
We Are Like This Wonly – 237.5 points.
Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 215 points.
Travelling Pillsburies – 215 points.
Hammer and Tongs – 190 points.
Mad O’Wot – 155 points.

KQA ANNIVERSARY YEARBOOK 2011-2012

The President of the KQA, Ochintya Sharma also released the yearbook for 2011-2012 containing questions from many of the quizzes conducted by the KQA in the past year. He thanked the efforts of the many quizmasters that contributed questions to the yearbook as well as those that helped edit it. The KQA school quiz book for 2011-2012 will be released at the ASKQANCE School and College quizzes to be held in July 2012.

KQA Yearbooks including older copies can be purchased at most KQA events held in Bangalore.

June 30, 2012 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes, Results | Leave a Comment

ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 1 Results

It’s that time of the year again, when quizzers from across India descend upon the IAT Hall on Queen’s Road for KQA’s anniversary festival of quizzing, ASKQANCE.

MEGA-WHATS SEMI-FINAL 1

QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijaykumar.

We kicked off the quizzing with the first semi-final of the Mega-Whats Face Off with 8 teams from Coimbatore, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, and Goa fighting for the 4 places in the finals. Here are the final scores:

Insignificant Others – 290 points.
QED – 275 points.
Hammer and Tongs – 235 points.
Feni Vidi Vici Bitchy – 200 points.
Swami and Friends – 190 points.
Questionable Characters – 135 points.
Insert Uncool Name here – 105 points.
Tiruppur Tughlaqs – 85 points.

HOARSE LATITUDES – The Travel Quiz

QMs: Dibyendu Das, Mitesh Agarwal & Rajath Krishna

The prelims for the travel quiz was closely fought and 9 teams qualified for the finals with the difference between the 1st team and the 9th being just 4 points.

The finals also went on to be in a similar vein, with Hammer and Tongs, the team from Kolkata winning by a narrow margin and the difference between the 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams being just a point or two.

Hammer and Tongs – 269 points.
Excess Baggage (the travel quiz avatar of MetaQuizziks) – 255.5 points.
We Are Like This Wonly – 254 points.
QED – 251 points.
Delhi Sucks – 175 points.
Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 172 points.
Tough Luck – 132 points.
Insert Cool Name Here – 113 points.
Pass the Ketchup – 71 points.

June 30, 2012 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes, Results | Leave a Comment

ASKQANCE 2012

ASKQANCE Quiz Festival

KQA celebrates the anniversary of its founding in June every year with a festival of quizzing titled ASKQANCE.

It has been called ‘The Woodstock of Quizzing’, and various other names, but we’d much rather let the quizzes and the quality of the participation they attract speak for themselves.

WHEN
We have three days of quizzing lined up–Friday 29th June, Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1 July 2012.

WHERE
The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore

Narahari Hall (I Floor) on 29th June
Arakere Hall (Ground Floor) on 30 June and 1 July.

THE QUIZZES

DAY I
29 June 2012

Event I
Mega-Whats Face-Off Semi-Final I
1615hrs-1745hrs

Event II
HOARSE LATITUDES
The Travel Quiz

Presented by
Rajath Krishna, Mitesh Agarwal and Dibyendu Das

RULES
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per
Open to all
Teams of 4 members

Prelims
1745hrs-1845hrs

Finals
1900hrs-2030hrs

Prizes
for teams finishing I, II and III
plus consolation prizes for all finalists
and Audience Prizes.

DAY II
30 June 2012

Event I
Mega-Whats Face-Off Semi-Final II
0915hrs-1045hrs

Event II
BY HOOKE OR BY CROOKES
The Science Quiz

Presented by

Rajagopal PS, Vivek Kartikeyan and Ochintya Sharma

RULES
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per
Open to all
Teams of 4 members

Prelims
1100hrs-1200hrs

Finals
1215hrs-1345hrs

Prizes
for teams finishing I, II and III
plus consolation prizes for all finalists
and Audience Prizes.

EVENT III
KIBITZ SIMPLE
The Sports & Leisure Quiz

Presented by
Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh Srinivasan aka ‘Landmark Venky’.

RULES
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per
Open to all
Teams of 4 members

Prelims
1415hrs-1515hrs

Finals
1530hrs-1700hrs

Prizes
for teams finishing I, II and III
plus consolation prizes for all finalists
and Audience Prizes.

TEA
1645-1730hrs

EVENT IV
Mega-Whats Face-Off Finals

Presented by

Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani.

The winners will take home the KQA Founders’ Trophy and the right to call themselves the National Champions of Indian Quizzing.

Time
1730hrs-1930hrs

DAY III
1 July 2012

SON OF LUMIERE
The Annual Film Quiz

Presented by
Anustup Datta and Arun Hiregange

RULES
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per
Open to all
Teams of 4 members

Prelims
1000hrs-1100hrs

Finals
1115hrs-1315hrs

Prizes
for teams finishing I, II and III
plus consolation prizes for all finalists
and Audience Prizes.

SESAME
The Open Quiz

Presented by Arul Mani

RULES
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per
Open to all
Teams of 4 members

Prelims
1415hrs-1515hrs

The MahaQuizzer Award Ceremony
1515hrs-1530hrs

The Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Trophy for Quizzing Excellence will be presented by Mrs. Vidya Mulky and Mr. Anand Mulky
to
Ms. Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka (Kolkata)
the winner of MahaQuizzer 2012.

Finals
1530hrs-1700hrs

Prizes
for teams finishing I, II and III
plus consolation prizes for all finalists
and Audience Prizes.

Please put everything aside during that weekend to join us in celebrating quizzing, Bangalore-style.

June 17, 2012 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off

Bizkashi, Non-Fiction, AJM Quizzes – Results

The results of three open quizzes held on Sunday 13 May 2012 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I: BIZKASHI, KQA’s Annual Business Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. Tups & Udupa / Sreekanth & Jayakanthan – tied on 160
3. Santosh & Adi – 140
4. Ashwan & Kivi – 115
5. Keshav Athreya & Govind Paliath – 95
6. Alagarsamy & Vinod – 85
7. Yaggy & Mitesh – 70
8. Karthik & Dhammo / Venky & Raju – tied on 40

EVENT II: The Non-Fiction Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. Alagarsamy & Jayakanthan – 27
2. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 23
3. Raju & Manish – 22
4. Manu Sudhakar & Anil Raghavan – 21
5. Doc Krishnan & Sandip – 16
6. Karthik & Dhammo – 14
7. CIDs From Kerala – 14
8. DD & Sumeer – 13.5

EVENT III: The Second AJM Open House

QM: Abhishek Upadhya

Team 13 won
Team 10 placed second

June 4, 2012 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Open Quiz

Canara Union will host the seventh edition of the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Open Quiz in partnership with KQA on Sunday 29 April 2012 at the club premises on 8th Main Road, Malleswaram,

This quiz is held in memory of Wing Commander G.R. Mulky, who founded KQA in 1983.

QMs: Dibyendu Das and Vinay Das

Schedule
Registration: 1000hrs
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1145-1345hrs

Rules
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry free for School students (up to Std. X)
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team.

Prizes for all finalists

April 27, 2012 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment